Yeah. The Echo was for the Apple II line, and was introduced in the late 70s. You had to copy the software to drive the synth/screen-reader onto every disk you wanted to talk, or else switch the disks

Yes, in my dos computer I had artic vision. There was also Vert and Vert plus. Pam. Sent from Mail for Windows

Hi, Also there were In the early to mid-80's, the Echo, and echo2-plus I believe if memory serves me correct, and Artic's Business Vision. And dating back to the first computer and screen reader

Hi all, A significant change is now being tested in Project Meteor in the form of a new try

Wow! Amazing stuff! I don’t think I remember that, I’m only at version 3.9, soon to be 4.0, so I’m young enough to not remember all of that, still though, all of this is amazing, and if not for

You are correct but I think the article was really aimed at human interest describing Ted and the NVDA developers. A real history of how blind people have accessed computers in various ways would take

I also had Window Bridge, and I loved it! SWB did things that a lot of others didn’t…like seamless access to the command line, for instance. Sadly, Window Bridge 2000 wasn’t quite as good, IMO,

Yes, there was: TexTalker by Street Screen Talk, Vocal-Eyes, and Window-Eyes by GW Windows Bridge Vert and Vert Pro ProTalk ISOSS Flipper ASAP ASAW Artic Tiny Talk VOS (Verbal Operating System) And,

I know this is not exactly screen reader related but if you wanna talk about it terms of my first experience with the Internet you could actually go back to newspaper audio text telephone information

I worked at IBM in Bolder Colorado in 1980. I could still see some then so used a magnifying glass and a CCTV. However, one day they brought in a Votrax synthesizer which connected to my terminal

Hi: My first desktop computer was before Windows. I started out by using one of the first in line of the Jaws For Dos programs. However, the history of blind using computers goes back

This article from AFB says that the first Windows screen-reader was Window Bridge. https://www.afb.org/aw/1/4/16165 The first screen reader for a Windows operating system was not

Hi, Pam, The very first computer I got had a demo version of window eyes. I had gotten it from Computers for the Blind in Texas. Rosemarie Sent from Mail for Windows

I still miss ASAP and my Accent PC card. LOL

I thought it was window eyes which I have used. It might have also been vocal eyes in 1994 or so. I remember quitting to windows or quitting to doss.

Very good as a summary.  A complete history would have covered many more screen readers and their developers. Howard

My first windows computer that I got in 2000 had window bridge in it. But I felt so alone, because nobody could help me, because they either had jaws or window eyes in theirs. Pam. Sent from

Great article. However, and perhaps I misunderstood, but it sounds like the author suggests Jaws for Windows was the first screenreader for Windows. Nope. The first was Windows Bridge, from

very nice informative article. <bglists@...> wrote: -- nothing is difficult unless you make it appear so. r. aravind, manager Department of sales bank of baroda specialised

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